Pages: 292-293

ON THE ARTICLE "THE PROLETARIAT FIGHTS, THE BOURGEOISIE CREEPS
TOWARD POWER"

EXCERPTS FROM "VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG".

Vossische Zeitung, 22 July [19]05.
Special Report from Moscow. 19 July. 1st day of the Congress.
Chairman: Heyden. Vice-Chairmen: I. I. Petrunkevich, P. Shchepkin,
F. Golovan. Secretaries: Polier, Grusenberg, Leontyev, Astrov.
|...The Police drew up a protocol, which everyone ridiculed...|

Unanimously — against the Bulygin Constitution.

"On the whole the mood of the delegates is far more radical than
I expected. City delegates, who in general are far more conservative
than zemstvo delegates, proved to be 'reds' here. The blame for this lies
solely with the government, which still wants to hold back historical
development. The new postponement of the convocation of popular
representatives has not failed to influence the mood. The view that the
Assembly could transform itself into a Constituent Assembly does not
appear to be confirmed, since the zemstvos decisively (rundweg) rejected
going together with the socialists. This refusal is probably explained
by the fact that the army for now remains at the government's disposal."

The tactic will probably be that of Pavel Mikhaylovich Milyukov
(the Union of Unions failed in this) — namely: to participate in the
elections, then transform the Assembly (Bulygin's) into a Constituent
Assembly.

St. Petersburg, 20 July. The Congress documents of the Union of
Unions were left in Finland. On 14 and 15 July the Congress met in
Terijoki; it opened publicly in Vyborg on Sunday.

Inspections at the border and arrests yielded nothing.

798

* Works, Vol. VIII, pp. 128-135. — Ed.

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LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

Le Temps. 24 July [19]05. Editorial. Errors from above and below (one
must board the government ship, not think of boycott, etc.). "The main
question": whether to boycott the Bulygin Constitution or not. Remained
unresolved.

"There are no profound reforms that can be accomplished without the
union of material force and moral force. The government alone has material
force. The reformists of the zemstvos are the moral force. These two forces
must associate in good faith"—

earlier: "If there is any chance of achieving a change, it lies in the union
of all toward a transactional aim"³.

¹ The excerpt was made from the article "Die Revolution in Russland. Der Semstwo-Kongress" ("The Revolution in Russia. The Zemstvo Congress") in No. 340 of the newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" dated 22 July 1905.

² In the editorial of "Vossische Zeitung" it says: "Pavel Mikhaylovich M." From the text it is evident that the reference was to Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov.

³ The excerpt was made from the article "Le congrès de Moscou" ("The Moscow Congress") in No. 16105 of the newspaper "Le Temps" dated 24 July 1905.

⁴ Translation: "No profound reforms can be accomplished without the union of material and moral forces. Only the government possesses material force. The zemstvo reformists represent moral force. It is necessary that these forces sincerely unite...
If there is a possibility of achieving change, it can be accomplished through the striving of all toward a negotiated agreement."

Lenin uses the quotation about the union of material and moral forces on page 134 of Volume VIII.